The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage
Sidedoor
The Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and Grace Yasumora
The Harlem Renaissance was a spiritual coming of age when black people in the U.S. moved from social disillusionment to racial pride. The cultural awakening followed the Great Migration, and Savage was now at the heart of it all. Not long after arriving in New York, Savage got accepted to Cooper Union University on a scholarship. But then, out of the blue, the school retracts her acceptance.
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